Read&Write Reviews & Insights

Score9.3 out of 10

81 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Read&Write are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Access to Features: Users have appreciated the easy access to dictionaries, picture dictionaries, and word collections, allowing them to quickly find word meanings without feeling embarrassed about seeking help. This feature has proven particularly beneficial for language learners and students needing quick reference tools.

Beneficial Read Aloud Setting: Some users found the read aloud setting helpful in increasing focus during classes and aiding in revision by breaking down large chunks of text. It has also been noted as a useful tool for students who struggle with reading comprehension or have learning disabilities.

Valuable Screen Reading Tool: The screen reading tool has been considered the most valuable feature by some users, especially those with limited spelling abilities. Additionally, the word prediction feature was highlighted as beneficial for students facing spelling challenges, providing extra support during writing tasks.

Reviews

130 Reviews

Review 2025

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

July 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Read&Write for our high school students. All students have access to it, but we especially encourage students with a learning disability in reading or writing to use it to complete assignments. Some of our students have trouble getting their thoughts into words, or reading a large amount of text and Read&Write assists with this.

Pros

Research component (collect highlights)
Is very user friendly
Functions are clear and easy to use

Cons

Quirks when downloading the extension
The Read&Write bar doesn't always open for us
It's not always easy to know how to trouble shoot tech problems when they arise
It's a bit clunky at times to use

Likelihood to Recommend

When students are trying to log into Read&Write but the tool bar doesn't open right away, students get frustrated and don't want to use it. We like the text to speech component for Read&Write, but we wish it could be used not online (for paperback novels). When the program works like it's supposed to and a student needs it for something online, it can be very helpful.

Verified User

Employee (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Read&Write Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 1, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a district wide license for Read&Write and it helps us address necessary accommodations for students per their 504s and IEPs as well as reaches general ed students who may benefit from the tools as well. We started with a license for SPED only and increased to district wide a few years ago.

Pros

The text-to-speech is very easy to use, customizable and works everywhere our students need it.
The addition of Co:Writer word prediction has been excellent and the topic dictionaries are very helpful.
The ability to customize the toolbar is very helpful, especially being able to modify the number of tools shown at a time for students who get overwhelmed.
I love the built-in dictionaries.

Cons

I wish Rewordify showed the approximate grade level of the text it was reading.
I think it would be great to be able to see real pictures in the picture dictionary instead of just colored drawings.

Likelihood to Recommend

It works well for my students who are not reading at grade level but need a way to access their electronic material independently. Often times my secondary students don't want a paraeducator sitting with them reading aloud. It's also great for my students who have difficulty composing text via handwriting or typing because this allows them to use their voice instead. Regarding less appropriate, I really haven't run into that yet for the students I've assessed.

Verified User

Professional (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Improves educational outcomes

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 26, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this in our school for staff and students to use in daily tasks/lessons and assessments. The features available are useful in all subject areas and give students man opportunities in the day to work independently. Our neurodivergent/low vision students love using this tool regularly to complete learning tasks.

Pros

The 'rewordify' feature is excellent for supporting students doing research tasks and deciphering webpages with lots of information
The screen reading tool and AI enhanced voices make longer texts easier/faster to process
The dictionary and picture dictionary tool helps our second language learners understand new vocabulary

Cons

Sometimes the talk&type takes a while to register that you're speaking, even if you've clicked onto the page and started talking
The dictionary tool provides literal meanings, it would be great if it could contextualise the meaning of the word
There is no scope in any of the features for Te Reo Māori yet

Likelihood to Recommend

It's great for teaching and learning for students that need to communicate their understanding in other ways. At the moment, we don't use Google Classroom or have managed school laptops, so we can't use the Data desk to control the extension during assessments. Having the ability to use data desk without google classroom would be great for us.

Verified User

Employee (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Inclusion and independence

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 25, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have moved from human readers to assistive technology. At the moment we use it mainly in official exams but some students use it to increase independence. The feedback we are getting is very positive, students report to be more confident, to spend less time with homework and to be able to understand lessons and assignments better. There has been an increase in number of students who make use of their Exam Access Arrangements because 'using Read & Write doesn't feel like standing out'.
We are looking forward to keeping exploring the possibilities that Read & Write brings to our school.

Pros

Improve independence
Make learning and exams more accessible
Reduce mental workload
Inclusion

Cons

Speech to text
Training: lesson plans, kahoots, live sessions with students...

Likelihood to Recommend

It works very well at home. For exams and homework the text to speech function is really useful. In lessons is good too. The text to speech is more complicated to use because the candidates/ students need a different room. We also need more training on how to use this function.

Verified User

Employee (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Overall Good Things

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 25, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for students to help them access their education and support their IEP goals. Breaks barriers such as spelling challenges, , understanding, decoding and access to translation and allows students to show what they know. There is an easy admin side to Read&Write and they are constantly improving.

Pros

Listening to user feedback
Streamlining tools to integrate with Google Suite
Customization for students

Cons

Since merging with Don Johnston missing the pop out outline support with citation support was so important
Topic dictionaries for word prediction not working as well
Company might be too big now and not as responsive hoping that changes through the transition
Hoping for the data that Don Johnston used to provide on the admin side
The translation on Read&Write is only doing single words whereas with snap and read I was able to translate whole texts or by sentence.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is appropriate for students that will use it to support their literacy tasks and goals appropriately without relying on things such as the word prediction for all of their writing. It also is not appropriate for students who still haven’t grasped sentence structure, typing, or need more guidance or word banks. Still might be less perfect for an English language learner but now it is pretty much the only tool. Hoping the merging of products means the features will all eventually be there

Verified User

Professional (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Great for exams in schools

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 20, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Read&Write has been a gamechanger in helping students undertaking GCSE and A-Level examinations to access exam papers without the use of a human reader, where they struggle reading the paper themselves and are entitled to assistance. It gives the students more control over their exam, and means the organisation don't have to pay for multiple people across multiple exams to sit with our less able students and read the papers out loud.

Pros

Read aloud
'Exam Mode' lockdown of options
Highlighting words to make them clearer

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for examinations.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Read&Write Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 20, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Read&Write in our classrooms. The product has been a valuable tool for students that do not like to write for various reasons. Students with poor spelling skills use the word predication and the text to speech feature. Students with lagging fine motor abilities that impedes fluent writing use the app because it eliminates the hurdle that hand writing poses.

Pros

give auditory feedback
word prediction
Cleans up web pages and gets rid of advertising, etc.

Cons

short pop up video tutorials or pro tips

Likelihood to Recommend

Read&Write is suited to students that are capable of working independently. It is not suited to students with poor phonemic awareness or limited cognitive ability.

Verified User

Administrator (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Read&Write in Further Education

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 12, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To give support to SEND students and exam candidates during formal examination. To support and advise students on the various applications in Read&Write that suit their individual needs, courses and progression into Higher Education.

Pros

The ability to alter and retain settings suited to the individuals needs
The use within other packages and programmes

Cons

Setting the speech to text up on different devices that do not have the internet speed to function smoothly or if it is in Exam mode and the user is not constantly using the speech to text mode.
Grouping the voices on their style such as harsh, clipped or soft would enable to pick their preference quicker rather than going through all of the different countries.

Likelihood to Recommend

As I support students with SEN in a 6th Form College this is all of the time. A case is of a student who is going to university and who is going to claim DSA but needed to know what software would benefit them and how so that they could understand more fully before their assessment I was able to show them Read&Write and what it it could and would do for them on the course that they had chosen. The student was amazed and so much more confident in their chosen path that they would be able to achieve it independently.

Verified User

Professional (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great for Neurodivergent Learners

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 4, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We work with neurodivergent learners and Read&Write helps them process and understand the content that they are reading or using in lessons. Supports them in a variety of their needs and allows us to level the playing field for all learners and their different levels of ability in terms of reading and writing and accessing resources for lessons and for learning in different subject areas.

Pros

Reading ruler
Vocab dictionary
Audio text

Cons

The app could be better
Ability to add learners who use different emails

Likelihood to Recommend

ND learners, accessing resources with learners being able to differentiate difficulty to their own preferences, increased independence.

Verified User

Manager (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great tool for the classroom

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 4, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a Y7 teacher in a learning support class with lots of dyslexic kids. We have Read&Write on all chromebooks, and the kids use it regularly. It is available to all students in the school.

Pros

Read any text for students - they have ear buds
Type for them - especially during free writes
Change the colour of the text, background to help eye focus

Cons

Sometimes the write aspect can be very inaccurate - even with a headset - especially for students with accents
Readily available instructional videos that are kid friendly and easy to access by the kids

Likelihood to Recommend

Still not as good as the students having a one on one reader writer, but it's a good alternative.
Not sure how to get round this but the age group I teach are super sensitive about looking like they are doing something different from others, so If the mic could pick up extremely quiet voices ?

Verified User

Employee (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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